Prevention of Pollution
8.1 Reference should be made to the "Prevention of Pollution from Agricultural Activity: A Code of Good Practice" for details as to how applicants should avoid causing pollution. Adherence to the Code is necessary to comply with the General Environmental Conditions.
8.2 If advisers encounter pollution problems on farms or crofts for which they are drawing up Environmental Audits, the potential applicant would be required to address the pollution problem and thereafter proceed with the RSS application but, if unwilling to do so, he/she would not be allowed to enter the Scheme.
8.3 The Control of Pollution (Silage, Slurry and Agricultural Fuel Oil)(Scotland) Regulations 1999 set minimum standards for installations used for the storage of such substances. Installations that are new, substantially enlarged or substantially reconstructed since the Regulations came into force are covered by them. For installations in existence before this, SEPA may serve notice, if there is a significant pollution risk, requiring work to be carried out on these so that they meet some or all of the standards applied to new installations. This means for example that existing slurry storage facilities of less than 6 months capacity would not constitute a problem unless pollution was occurring or there was a significant risk of this. However, the absence of silage effluent collection facilities would obviously require immediate action to be taken.
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